On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:29:35PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 at 18:08:01 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > GNOME 3.24 modules have begun including meson build scripts. > > It looks as though Meson approximately follows the Autotools-like > build pipeline that dh assumes, so something like this should work:
> override_dh_auto_build: > cd debian/build && ninja -v > > override_dh_auto_test: > cd debian/build && ninja test > > override_dh_auto_install: > cd debian/build && DESTDIR=${CURDIR}/debian/tmp ninja install Note that this won't work unless we rename ninja-build to ninja. That's actually possible now -- I've RoQAed RM of ninja (#848359) so the name is free for reuse, but the renaming can't commence until Stretch is released. (I haven't ever used meson nor ninja{,-build}, so I don't know more.) Meow! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11